Machine for printing shop-counter check-books and the like.



F. WAITE. MACHINE FOR PRINTING SHOP COUNTER GHEGK BOOKS AND TH E LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, 1904.

Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

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APPIIOATION FILED JUNE 28,1904.

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MACHINE FOR PRINTING SHOP-COUNTER. CHECK-BOOKS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Application filed. June 28, 1904. Serial No. 21%,526.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED WAITE, a subject of the King of England, residing at The Lindens, Burras Lane, Otley, in the county of York, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Machines for Printing Shop-Counter Check-Books and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines and parts thereof for manufacturing from a web of paper such articles as shop-counter check books and the like. In these machines the paper is generally printed, numbered, perforated, folded and cut to size, and in the present machine the sheets are counted into piles and delivered from the machine ready for binding.

One object of the present invention is to provide improved means for numbering the sheets or for effecting the paging, as this operation is generally termed in the art. In machines of this character, where several operations are performed, it is desirable to arrange the different mechanisms for performing the different functions in such a way that the machine a whole will be as compact as possible. In some machines, the numbering or paging devices are set up with the type and, therefore, are comprised within the space allotted for the type; but in rapidly running machines this method of paging is unreliable. In the present case, the paging and printing are done separately and by different mechanisms, whereby it is important to arrange the paging mechanism in such a way as to avoid any lengthening of the machine. l'doreover, in the case of shop counter check books and the like, the numbering is often required to be done on both sides of the web so that when the books are manufactured the numbering will occur in the proper places. For these purposes the paging mechanism is arranged to effect the paging while the web is in a vertical position, the printing being done while the paper is in a horizontal position. l\loreover, by effect ing the paging while the paper is in a vertical osition, there is little blurring or smearing because the paper does not sag down upon the numbering type. Furthermore, in accordance With the invention, the improved means for effecting the paging comprises one or more frames carrying chains of type. These frames are arranged to reciprocate to impress the type upon the paper, and the type is preferably removable from the chains. Means are also provided for bringing the paging and printing into register, all as will be explained hereinafter.

The invention will now be more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which a practical and convenient embodiment of the invention is illustrated.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a machine with the improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the machine. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views at right angles to each other of one of the paging devices, Fig. 3 being a side elevation andl i a a broken plan. Figs. 5 and G are detail views of a portion of the paging chain in side elevation.

Describing first the general nature of the iachine shown in the drawings so that the paging mechanism and its relation to the machine can be the more readily understood, it will suflice to refer briefly to the different mechanisms of the machine and their functions. The side frames 2 and 3 carry between them the two platens i and 5 which meet the type beds 6 and 7 on the carrier 8. The latter is vibrated on its rocking shaft 9 by a connecting rod 10 on each side connecting the carrier 8 to eccentric pins 13 in the two main spur wheels 14 provided one on each side of the machine. This double type bed arrangement is shown and described more fully in my Letters latent No. 7 86,072, issued to me March 28, 1905.

The web of paper is fed from a roll 16 preferably located at the rear of the machine and takes the course indicated by the broken lines and the arrows adjacent thereto. First it passes up and between the feed roll ers 61, then loosely down by and underneath the roll of paper, under the guide 62, and up between the paging devices hereinafter to be described, over the guide roller 7 5 and the adjustable bar 76 and then over the platens 4 and 5. After passing the platens l and 5 it may be perforated if desired, the perforators however, being omitted from the present machine, whence it may pass on to the cutters and folders which have also been omitted from the present machine. Having passed the folders the several sheets are delivered in piles upon an endless belt 51, the operation ofwhich is timed by counting mechanism (which it is not necessary to describe in this specification) so that, when a predetermined number of sheets have been delivered in a pile one on top of the other against afence 23,

mechanism to move the completed pile of sheets toward the side of the machine to make way for the delivery of another pile of sheets thereon. In the present machine two bolts 51. are shown and the web of aper is arranged to be divided longitudinal y down the center so that two sets of books can be manufactured at the same time.

Referring now to the paging mechanism for this machine, reference may first be had to Figs. 3 and 4 in which one of the paging devices is illustrated apart from the machine. Each paging or numbering device comprises a frame 97 provided with one or more numbering chains 92 and, if desired, with numbering or printing wheels 96. Each chain may be mounted in the frame upon sprocket wheels 93 secured upon cross shafts in the frame, and may consist of one or more loops according to the length of chain required. In the present case a chain having one loop is illustrated together with a chain having two loops. In mounting the chain having two loops, it is obvious that two of the strands must cross each other and for this purpose a guide roller 95 is provided to prevent interference. The frame 97, as will presently be explained, is mounted to reciprocate and upon each reciprocation to bring one of the numbers on the chain against a platen or some fixed part of the machine 112 (Fig. 3) between which and the frame the web of paper feeds (Fig. 1). F or advancing the chain upon each movement of the frame, a ratchet wheel 111 may be secured to one of the shafts having a chain carrying sprocket, and this ratchet may be operated by a pawl 113 upon an arm 114 se cured to a fixed part of the machine. In this way, upon each reciprocation of the frame 97, the chain will be advanced the proper distance.

In Figs. 5 and 6 a preferable form of type carrying chain is il ustrated. This chain comprises type carrying links 120 and connecting links 121 alternating with the type carrying links. The type carrying links are preferably formed with undercut grooves 90 to receive type blocks 89 which are shaped .to fit these grooves. Then the connecting links and type carrying links are substantially in line, the connecting links project over the ends of the type blocks in the type carrying links so as to prevent their slipping out of or their removal from the type carrying links, but when the connecting links are tilted at a sufficient angle to the type carrying links, (Fig. .6), the type blocks may be re moved from the type carrying links. Inthis way the type may be replaced in or removed from the chain as conditions require. It is preferable to employ rubber face type in these machines as the printing is much clearer than with engraved metal face type, and because no make ready is required. This rubber type may be inked by a roller pad 94 as it asses beneath the same.

In the mac ine illustrated in the drawing, three paging frames are provided, as will be seen from Fig. 1. These frames may be supported at one end in a pivoted sector bracket or brackets 99 provided with a number of different seats whereby said end may be adjusted at different radial distances from the pivot of the bracket, thus facilitating the horizontal adjustment of the frames. The purpose of this horizontal adjustment of the frame is to bring the end of the frame, where the impression is effected, at the particular distance desired from the cooperating platen 1-12. As the numbering type becomes worn it is obvious that this distance may be required to be varied. The other end of the frame is operatively connected with and supported on, as illustrated in Fig. 1, one arm of a bell crank lever mounted uoon a rock shaft 79, 71 or 7 2 as the case may e, which shafts are arranged to be operated at the proper times from the driving gear of the machine through suitable connections asillustrated. As the bell crank levers are rocked upon the rock shafts, the frames will be reciprocated.

It will be obvious that as many numbering mechanisms maybe employed as are desired, three being illustrated in the present case to adapt the machine particularly for printing shopcounter check books where three sets of numbers are required. In addition to the numbers, the printing wheels 96 may be supplied with characters such as letters and the like or with series numbers, whereby letters or other characters may be printed in ad dition to the numbering.

It will be observed that the numbering operation in the present machine takes place first and directly as the web of paper is fed from the roll, and that the numbering is effected while the web is in a vertical position. After the web passes the numbering devices, it travels on, as has been described above, over the roll 75 and then back over a bar 76 before passing in a horizontal plane to be printed. This bar 7 6 is'preferably pivoted at in a horizontal adjustable slide 77. By thus pivoting the bar, the inequalities in the web of paper such as an unequal tension upon the two edgesof the web can be taken up or compensated for. The slide 77 may be adjusted backward and forward by means of a hand wheel 7 3 upon a shaft 74 provided with pinions 78 engaging racks 79 upon the frame of the machine. By adjusting t'hissli-de horizontally, the bar 76 is drawn backward .or forward with respect to the platens 4: and. 5 and thus the paging is readily made to register with the printed matter upon the web.

Various changes may be made in the construction and application of the present improvements without imparting from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a printing press, in combination with means for printing, means for guiding a web of paper in a substantially vertical plane, and horizontally reciprocating numbering frames on both sides of said web to number the paper on each side thereof as it is thus fed.

2. In a printing press, in combination with means for printing, means for guiding a web of paper in a substantially vertical plane, a horizontally reciprocating numbering frame on each side of the web, and a platen on each side of the web to cooperate with the corresponding frame upon the other side of the web to number the paper on both sides therc of as it is being thus guided.

In a printing press, the combination with means for printing the paper while in a substantially horizontal plane, of means for numbering the paper on both sides thereof while in a substantially vertical plane, said numbering means including a horizontally recinrocatmg frame on each side of the paper, a chain of numbering devices upon each of said frames, and means to reciprocate said frames to impress the type upon the paper.

l. in a press for printing books from a web of paper, the combination of means for printing the web and means for paging the web, said paging means including means to guide the web in a substantially vertical plane, separate paging devices located on each side of the web as it is fed in the vertical plane, and means to reciprocate the paging devices to effect the paging.

5. The combination of type blocks and a carrying chain having type carrying links alternating with over lapping connecting links, the type blocks being held in the type carrying links by the overlapping connecting links.

6. The combination of a ty e block and a chain having type carrying inks and connecting links between the type carrying links, each type block being adapted to be slid into its type carrying link when the connecting links are at a considerable angle thereto and to be held in said link by the connecting links when they are substantially in line therewith.

7. The combination of type blocks and a chain having type carrying links and connecting links between the type carrying links, said connecting links being pivoted upon the sides of the type carrying links and adapted to hold the type blocks in the type carrying links and to permit the removal of the type blocks from the type carrying links when they are tilted sufiiciently with respect to the type carrying links.

8. In a printing )lGSS, the combination of a frame mounted to reciprocate, sprocket wheels upon said frame, a sprocket chain car rying type at intervals thereon and looped and crossed from one sprocket wheel to another, and a platen against which the numbers are brought by the reciprocating frame in order to impress the paper.

9. In aprinting press, the combination of a frame mounted to reciprocate, a platen 00- operatin therewith, and a pivoted sector provided with a plurality of seats for supporting the frame at one end for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

FRED WAIlE.

WVitnesses I CECIL A. S. BAXTER, DAVID NowELL. 

